VISUAL ARTS BLOG SIGNING OFF: Adios, Sayanara, Auf Wiedersehen, Nabadey, Salaam, Goodbye

Well, my loyal readership, this is the end of this blog for the year. I launched this resource last Fall with the hope of establishing a new conversational vehicle with fall 2007 applicants, and, just as importantly, of exhibiting some of the dynamism within the Department of Art. I hope the blog has been informative, answering questions about topics such as housing, scholarships, and admissions timelines. I'm sure you had other questions that weren't answered, though I appreciate those of you who forwarded some of those questions to me. I'm pretty confident that I answered--eventually--all the questions that came my way.

I hope the blog has been engaging and visually appealing. I'm very pleased with the videos that my talented student assistant, Ami Clark, produced. Though not every American would agree on the talents and competency of Texas' George W. Bush, I'd like to think that they would all agree on the talent and competency of Texas' Ami Clark. As an animation student and the Pencil Mileage Club Historian, you'll get the chance to meet her next year in an animation class or a PMC meeting. If you do, be sure to compliment her on her videography. The art department has not documented students shows in the past, but I think Ami did a pretty good job of showing the diversity of student work and inspiring our developing artists to share a little about their motivations and vision. Thanks Ami.

Over the New Year's break I had the epiphany of finding some actual CSUF students to blog about the student experience in the department. I'm really pleased with the way those turned out, especially Chris' revelations about PMC, animation, internships, and the innumerable opportunities students have in the animation program. For those of you who may have thought the blog was just propoganda, I hope they imparted at least a modicum of veracity and grittiness to the blog and the department.

I hope this blog has been helpful, entertaining, and eye-opening about the visual arts at CSUF. I'm pretty confident that no other art department you may have applied to had anything similar to this. We like to think that CSUF, especially the arts, is on the cutting edge of major social and artistic trends. That has to be our location to ensure both, that we attact the sort of student who aspires to be a creative leader, and that upon graduation that student is well prepared to see that aspiration materialize.

Thanks for reading and I look forward to meeting each of you this summer during New Student Orientation, as well as during the fall 2007 term.

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